Repertoire
L. Boulanger
D’un matin de printemps
Olga Neuwirth
Keyframes for a Hippogriff — Musical Calligrams (US Premiere)
Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5
Performers
Thomas Søndergård
Conductor
Andrew Watts
Countertenor
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Location
NY Phil at Lincoln Center
Wu Tsai Theater / David Geffen Hall
W. 65th & Broadway
New York, NY
About The Performance
Prokofiev saw his Fifth Symphony as “glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit.” Thomas Søndergård, in his NY Phil debut, conducts the concerts, which open with Lili Boulanger’s cheerful ode to a spring morning. Olga Neuwirth’s Project 19 commission sets to music texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich Nietzsche, graffiti artists, and others, including Neuwirth herself.
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Images: Composer Olga Neuwirth / courtesy of NY Phil